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Course Outlines
Course Outlines

Intercultural Communication — COMS 1030

  1. Course Description
    • Credits: 3.00
    • Lecture Hours/Week: 3.00
    • Lab Hours/Week: 0.00
    • OJT Hours/Week: 0
    • Prerequisites: None
    • Corequisites: None
    • MnTC Goals:
      • 08 – Global Perspective
      • 7A – Human Diversity
      • 7B – Race/Power/Justice
    This course studies cultural differences and how they affect our communication locally, nationally and globally. Topics include definitions of communication; definitions of culture and diversity of cultural patterns; cultural variables influencing communication such as the media, gender, language, nonverbal behavior, perception, values, and beliefs. Basic theories, models and concepts that interface with intercultural communication are explored. An examination of US culture in comparison to other cultures is explored in different contexts. Meets Goal 8 and Goal 7 / 7A and 7B fall 2025 and after.
  2. Course Effective Dates: 2/10/22 – Present
  3. Outline of Major Content Areas
    1. Basic theories and models of culture and concepts
    2. Business and education across cultures: local, national, international levels
    3. Concepts: connection between culture and communication, relationships, dimensions of sameness and difference, cultural generalizations, and influence of attitudes, values and beliefs
    4. Crossing cultural boundaries: ethnocentrism, culture shock; images; media, the experience of tourists, expatriates, and refuges/immigrants
    5. Culture-specific interactions relative to deep and surface structure cultures
    6. Culture-specific reflection and analysis in various contexts: description, differences, and comparisons
    7. Definitions: communication, intercultural communication, culture
    8. Personal and professional intercultural relationship dynamics
  4. Learning Outcomes
    1. Demonstrate increased awareness and understanding of cultural differences
    2. Apply knowledge of intercultural communication theory to specific cross-cultural interactions in multiple contexts
    3. Compare and contrast the behaviors, attitudes values, and beliefs of specific cultural groups
    4. Reflect on and analyze personal and professional cross-cultural interactions
    5. Understand the core concepts specific to intercultural communication having to do with the general categories of identity, belief, language, nonverbal communication, and perception
  5. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum Goal Area(s) and Competencies
      Goal 08 — Global Perspective
      • Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.
      • Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.
      • Understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future.
      Goal 7A — Human Diversity
      • Understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States' history and culture.
      • Demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society.
      • Analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.
      • Describe and discuss the experience and contributions (political, social, economic, etc.) of the many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.
      Goal 7B — Race/Power/Justice
      • Understand historical and contemporary systemic structures of racism that sustain social, political, economic, and/or environmental inequities, particularly for Black, Indigenous lands and people, and other communities of color.
      • Describe individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations among racial groups in the United States- and how inequality is maintained by redefining race and other social identities and structures.
      • Identify communication and relational skills necessary for living and working effectively in a racially, culturally, ethnically, and linguistically stratified society with historic and ongoing practices and structures of exclusion.
  6. Learner Outcomes Assessment
      As noted on course syllabus
  7. Special Information
      None noted